The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 55 (Best of 12/17/18-12/21/18)

Episode Date: December 23, 2018

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or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something you think is underrated?

Okay. Produce, specifically from the 99 cent store. Wow. Yeah, I do the majority. I am a poor, and I do the majority of my grocery shopping at the 99 cent store. Or, I hit up the 99 cent store first.

Okay. And then, you know, you move up from there. Yeah, yeah. But you start at the bottom. Okay. Now we're here. Yeah. Right.

They got good stuff. Yeah. Oh, that's the fucking thing about the 99 cent store. You're like, yo, this is like all shit in the normal store. Exactly. Just because. Organic. Right.

Yeah. Check out the 99. They got soy milk. Like they got stuff. Yeah. My grandfather only buy candy at the 99 They got soy milk Like they got stuff Yeah my grandfather Only buy candy At the 99 cents store He's like

It's a very grandfather thing Yeah he's like It's a scam everywhere else He's like They got nutrageous there He's like So why can't I go To the 99 cents store

What else do you need I like that That's his baseline What you think They don't have nutrageous Oh what you want Nutrageous They got nutrageous

Snickers Well they got nut rages uh snickers well they got nut rages they got that too they got big ass snickers there too from three years ago for 99 cents fuck yeah

you can get like you can get like three nut rages depending on you know because it all depends on the stock you just keep going

back to nut rages no it's because that's my yeah my it's the same shit like we fuck with the 99 cent store so uh yeah uh all praise to uh 99 does he break down like tax cuts it was the same shit like we fucked with the 99 cent store so yeah

all praise to 99 does he break down like tax cuts and things like that into nutrageous and how many nutrageous

I mean he's a little bit older now so he's just you know he's keeping it as simple you know bird's eye view on everything

he's like look I'm not paying fucking retail if I and because sometimes like you said if they get a lot of inventory then it's not just like

oh, you get two for $99. They might do the wild like four for $99. And then what, Jack? I'm asking you. You're going to go to 7-Eleven? Right. Fuck that. Yeah, 7-Eleven is the opposite. 7-Eleven, if you try and buy anything there.

You're a fucking rube if you buy candy at 7-Eleven. But 7-Eleven, it's like national emergency standards where they know if you're trying to buy diapers or something from 7-Eleven, it's because you need them right then. Right. So they just gouge you. Yeah.

Oh, and that's so true. Yeah. Fucking 7-Eleven. We're just trying to spread the joy. Is 99 national? I think it is. Or like everyone has a version, right? If you don't have 99, you have Dollar Store or whatever.

Dollar Tree. Yeah. But think about how much you're saving at the 99. We're saving a fucking cent. I know. Idiots. There's one here in LA that I recommend. I got a rep.

Dollar King. Oh, yeah. Dollar King. Just real quick. Just so people know about Dollar King. And then we can move on. Okay. I love the Dollar King hat you're rocking too i bought sage at the dollar king okay like for like smudging sage yeah or

like sage like herbs to cook no no no like the dried out yeah that's like that's peak la but that's also like you'll go around the corner of the wild crystal shop and they're like yeah for a bundle of sage it's like 18 exactly like get the fuck out of my face. Okay, you just moved. Did you smudge your home with sage? Do I look crazy? Of course I did. I did? Yeah, get them fucking the energy out.

The energy? The evil spirits? I had some Palo Santo, you know? Oh, nice. Brought that around. I really like how Palo Santo... Palo Santo is my new, you know, Nag Champa. But that's more of a fragrant thing.

That's not like you're not warding off evil spirits. I mean, I don't even necessarily just do the sage thing for like, because I'm attaching it. Like I just, I don't know. Like I grew up seeing like my dad did it and I was like, I don't know. Incense is big in Japan too. Like, so I'm just like, yeah, fuck it. Just incense.

Just bring it around. If people are like, it's great for energy. I'm like, well then great. And if it happens to ward off evil spirits. Then great. That's a bonus. Yeah, exactly. Honestly, I'm trying to attract them because I have a lot of beef with spirits that are unfinished.

So, anyway, that's in a whole other show. Yeah. Miles is always riding on the bow of ships, screaming at evil spirits, come take me, you cowards. Like Lieutenant Dan. What are you waiting for? I've got all the new hip movie references.

What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Kill me. The Fugitive and Forrest Gump. Making a lot of timely movie references. Yeah, no, I mean, I just found out about smudging because I'm not as hip and cool as you guys. So we're going to smudge our house. We already did the chicken sacrifice, but we

haven't done the smudge. And were you able to fill how many rum bottles with the blood? We actually just painted the walls. Oh, great. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's check in real briefly with the Trumposphere. Rudy Giuliani responded to the details of the Michael Cohen sentencing and just everything by saying, quote, nobody got killed. Nobody got robbed.

This was not a big crime. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. A felony campaign finance. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. That's what he's saying. That's where they're at now. not a big crime. A felony campaign finance. That's what he's saying. That's where they're at now.

That's the level of defense coming out of this lawyer. Nobody got killed. Nobody got robbed. I would actually argue that people did get robbed. Yeah, robbed for sure. Robbed, absolutely. Straight hoodwinked. But then he followed it up.

He then had to tweet out, he goes, correction. Okay, I didn't say payments were not a big crime. I've said consistently that the Daniels and McDougal payments are not crimes and tweeted a great article yesterday making that point. If it isn't a witch hunt, why are they pursuing a non-crime? Right. So it's a non-crime that Michael Cohen is still having to do three years for? Sounds like a crime. After cooperating?

Yes. Like after the sentence coming down. Yeah, that sounds like a real non-crime. Real non-crime. But apparently I heard rumblings about the prison facility he's going to is like it's club fed. Oh, of course.

Yeah, of course. I mean, come on. Teach these people a fucking lesson, man. Put them in Gen Pop, fucking Rikers or some shit. Can you imagine? I mean, what? But I'm saying like you know what i mean that's that's like the other weird shitty thing about the criminal justice system is like okay and then if you do

white collar crime we don't want to put you with the the violent criminal there's a suburb because yeah because we're putting on white time out right yeah white time right right face the corner meanwhile people are fucking dying in solitary at these other prisons they're like yeah yeah and they're like, was the bocce court, was the grass cut low enough for you guys? Do you want to play a game of petanque later? Right. Anyway, so yeah, that's, I think

it's just very telling of how, you know, where we're at in terms of the panic levels within the administration that we're actually at the part where, because remember, Truth Isn't Truth was the last hot fucking single from MC Giuliani. Right. And now it's, ain't nobody got killed, nobody got robbed.

Not a big crime. That slaps. Honestly, it slaps. Nobody got killed. Nobody got robbed. So we'll see what happens there. But I think they know that it's getting worse and worse. And again, this could be us living in our fantasy world where we're hoping that's the case.

But objectively, it looks like more dominoes are falling down. Yeah. Real quick, I just wanted to check in with the good people of Johnson & Johnson. I've always trusted them with my children's safety. Oh, no. I use their No no tears baby shampoo and you guys just when you think that this whole unregulated corporatocracy thing is gonna work out just fine uh a story like this comes along because reuters investigation found that a scientist came to Johnson & Johnson in 1971 with his finding that Johnson & Johnson baby powder,

a product that's everywhere from the fucking scores table and NBA games to on every baby's butt for the past 40 years, that that product causes cancer. It has asbestos in it. Because when you mine talcc which it's talcum powder when you mine talc it's often found close by asbestos and so sporadically they would just get these big pockets of asbestos that would end up in their baby powder so it's not that they're adding it that in the process of mining talc you'll, you'll encounter asbestos that then just gets in the mix.

That gets in the mix. Right. And this is like massive production. Right. And instead of heeding this scientist's warning, they put him on an internal list of hostile persons

and, you know, banned him. And there have since been thousands of cases of people who died from mesothelioma which is a disease that almost exclusively comes from somehow inhaling asbestos right getting asbestos in your lungs so that that's really how this came to light is people were like well i don't i didn't work as best as mine. I got 19 kids, though. Right. Yeah, exactly. They wrote about this one woman who had two daughters and was a masseuse. And so she just worked with baby powder quite a bit.

And yeah, that's how she got it. Fuck. How? I mean, like, honestly, you'd think at some level, right, that if you know about the process of mining talcum or talc, that you'd know that this is something that can happen. Yep. Not even just on the Johnson & Johnson side, like on just like a minerals side, like a scientist level. Yeah.

That, you know, I'm sure there's some crazy backstory of how many people it took to suppress this information. Right. And so this just, we're finding this out now that this happened? Yes. Has there been any kind of class action lawsuit or something against Johnson & Johnson about Yeah, I think there's been thousands of lawsuits. Oh, right. But now they have like a smoking gun where they're saying like, hey, I told you in the

70s. Reuters uncovered a bunch of documents where they found out in the 70s that this was happening. And the 70s were a wild time. And that's the thing about lawsuits is like you can sue a corporation and pharmacy or pharmaceutical companies are like famous for this. Like they'll get sued by, you know, wrongful death suits and stuff like that. And even after paying all of these suits, they've still made way more money.

So it's not it's kind of just something they factor in. Like, yeah, we'll pay these people off because they died. But then we'll keep selling this product to everyone else. But I thought that talc was like, I thought we all were kind of weary of talc in recent years. I don't know. I just, I mean, I put it on my scrotum. Because there were other like spray. Because of the friction.

In between my thighs when I'm walking. Yeah, but there have been other studies that have come out about talcum powder and how it leads to cancer. So it's interesting that baby powder wasn't under siege when all of that was happening. I think it might have been. It's just, like, good PR, though. They're like, yo, keep some stories out this bottle. That's the problem with corporatocracies is these people who have all the money, these gen corporations, with corporatocracies is these people who have all the money these giant corporations have all the money to keep stories under wraps and keep people's keep the shit they don't want it's you

know it's funny as a kid i hated the smell of baby powder like i fucking hated it my mom was like you just hated that shit huh and i was like and i would get near it i'm like oh like you can smell the asbestos i don't know what it was i just didn't like it. Maybe what I'm saying is, you know, my olfactory senses were just so off the charts that I was able to sense asbestos. You're like a bloodhound? No, but I mean. You're like one of those dogs that can smell cancer. Yeah. Oh, wow.

Those dogs are very amazing. Shout out to Jacoby and Myers, though, and everybody else who's about to start running those mesothelioma commercials again. Right. Because it's lit. I mean, yeah. Did you sit front row at a LeBron James basketball game? Did you go to Witness the Goat?

Were you a witness? Then you might be entitled to cash settlements. Is there an alternative product for parents other than baby powder? I'm sure there is. Do you use baby powder with your kids? I haven't, no.

So what do you use? Yeah, what do you use? What is it for? Just to dry up your asshole? We just use Vaseline, really. Yeah. What's it for, really? Well, because diaper rash.

I don't know shit. You can either go one or two ways. From the friction of the diaper? No, from like the diapers get moist and like your skin. Yeah, and then that causes the, okay, right. Yeah, so changing the baby frequently helps, but also like

having some kind of barrier some people use diaper rash cream but that's usually like after the fact they already have the rash but like powders can keep the area dry so the kids don't

their skin isn't irritated but you putting some Vaseline like as a pre-acid yeah it works the same way yeah like wrapping up a brick okay yeah yeah yeah

wrapping up a brick but it's your baby right I've only handled the only other precious thing I've ever handled. Is bricks of cocaine. I mean, the shits are worth more than a kid. Yeah.

I mean... I don't know, man. You see what you can get for a two-year-old on the market. I'm always just monitoring. Oh, you're just monitoring? Well, it depends on the ethnicity. It's like the stock market. You're like, hmm.

Blue eyes. Uh-oh. Going up. It's like Yeezys. Right're like, hmm. Blue eyes. Whoa. Going up. It's like Yeezys. Right. Anyway, so Postmates, huh? Yeah, Postmates. They're starting to use robots.

The future is here. Yeah. Because they are starting to use little delivery robots, or they're planning on using delivery robots that they have somehow decided will not get kicked over immediately i mean when you look at this thing i mean i'm 34 and i still want to just kick the shit out of it like i'm 12 years old and not because i don't like the thing it's because i'm a luddite right i don't like technology but yeah there's something about it that i just feel like you know we're not quite

used to robots yet like we're already throwing bird scooters in the L.A. River. Because we're like, what the fuck is this thing? Yeah. And some people use them. But I can't imagine you see this little, basically, like, cooler on wheels with eyes. That's what it looks like, yeah. Yeah, like rolling down the street and someone's not going to fuck with it. Or, you know, you might try to open it yourself and get the food out of it.

Right. Like, where you go on a little postmate. Right. I'm assuming it has a very serious out of it. Right. Like where you go on a little Postmate. Right. I'm assuming it has a very serious lock on it. What does happen? So this thing is capable of carrying like I think 50 pounds and can run on a battery that will give it a range of 30 miles. So they say 12 deliveries a day. But Postmates is like, worry not.

We're not trying to tinker jobs. We're trying to help our human Postmates work smarter. So they're saying in places where parking's a mess, you can just send the robot out real quick to even bring the food from the restaurant to the driver so the driver doesn't have to circle the block to find a parking spot. So this is more for

them internally. It's not like I could send this Postmate robot to my man's house and see what he's doing. You know what I mean? I'm sure if you confiscated one and you had a programmer who was savvy enough, you could maybe rework its programming. I'd use it to go inside his house and see who's over there.

Inside you're hiding, you're like, what's your poop? You're like, surprise, motherfucker. This would make a lot more sense if it was a drone because you can't kick drones over. They're flying through the air. But how much Chipotle can you carry on a drone? Exactly.

That's a good question. Not 50 pounds. Yeah, apparently not. But I guess, yeah. I think the other thing, too, is, though, if you live close enough, they are experimenting with just taking it straight to your house, too. But L.A., we'll be the first city to see it in use next year. It's too many people out on the street with nothing to do.

Yeah. Well, luckily, this isn't a real pedestrian-friendly. No one's really walking anyway. I mean, but they're kicking it. You're talking about Central LA? Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, there are definitely places where there's good pedestrian traffic, but I feel like where I live in the Valley,

there are parts where it'll just be rolling down the lonely street. Yeah, I wonder how this is going to change just the feel of the city to have little droids rolling around around your knees. That's the sensation I feel like will be weird. I feel like I'm going to check this. Oh, we're there. I know, but I was, as a child, I was excited about it. But now when I really think about it, if I see this thing coming by,

I'm going to stop and be like, huh. Huh. Okay. So that's where we're here already. Yeah. Like the little robot, little food delivery robots. Maybe that's why I like drones. Just keep them out of my house.

Right. Or I don't want the robot coming to my house. I don't know who else is going to tap into this. I mean, Apple Pay just started, and the scammers are already all over that shit. On Apple Pay? Oh, hell yeah. What's the new scam on Apple Pay? Well, you know, Brooklyn is really the heart and center already all over that shit. On Apple Pay? Oh, hell yeah. What's the new scam on Apple Pay? Well, you know, Brooklyn is really the heart and center of all scams.

Oh, really? Yeah, like everything comes out of New York and then it kind of spreads and people learn how to do it elsewhere. But right now, Apple Pay is so lit. Like people are learning how. To just like swipe your information off your phone? Yeah, they're learning how to basically hack people's phones or get into their Apple Pays and then use their card information to buy gift cards at stores and rack up all this money. And it's easier than stealing people's credit card information and cloning their cards.

So I don't need a little Postmates pulling up to my house. The next thing I know, the scammers have all my deeds. I'll take the regular John, Tony, Kristen is outside. I'll come outside. I'll come outside. I come outside. I don't like them coming to my door. Oh, no, absolutely.

I don't need that. Because I look like, if someone catches me off guard for a delivery, I just look terrible. I need to look like a guy. Oh, you try to look nice? Oh, no, I come outside looking awful. It's not that I try to look nice. I try to look like a guy who's not eating food for three just for one. You try to look like you have a family?

I'm like, yeah, hold on. I'll be right out. Yeah, the food's outside. And they're like, yeah, you got a party going? I'm like, uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Yeah, no. It's a big, big party. Big party. It's very quiet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Don't worry about it. You know, silent.

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radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and don't worry we promise to avoid any Most of the time. And we're back. And this was a story I saw all over the place yesterday and over the weekend about whether the hot dog is technically a taco. It seemed very stupid to me. And then you kind of pointed out to me, Miles, that this is based on a comprehensive cube rule of food and how starches interact with the food that they're surrounding. Yeah, it is. I mean, the is the hot dog a sandwich debate has been something the Internet has been talking about for a long time. I think even Stephen Colbert asked Ruth Bader Ginsburg to weigh in on what her beliefs were. And in The Washington Post, they found they're going off this dude who came up with the cube rule.

He basically, this man says, there are eight categories of food, all defined by the placement of starch. So use the cube as your guideline for like how you can define what each dish is. So if there's, if the starch is on the bottom and you have shit on top, it's toast. If you have sandwich on top,

yeah, on top and bottom, it you have sandwich on top sandwich yeah on top and bottom it's a sandwich if it is a u-shaped starch it is a taco if it's a four-sided starch covering with the ends exposed it's sushi like a sushi roll yeah like a sushi roll uh if you just have uh five sides with an open top like a bread, that's a soup or salad with bread bowl. Okay? Okay. So technically like a pumpkin pie would be a bread bowl salad because of this. Now if it's completely encased in starch, it's a calzone.

Right. So those are the rules that this man has put out. This is starch-based food. Yes, this is all starch-based food. However, now if there is starch, but it's a mismatch, and it's not in a specific place according to the visualization of a cube, for example, fried rice or mashed potatoes or poutine, those are salads. Uh-huh.

Yeah. And so fried chicken is a calzone because the breading is all around it? Yep. Okay. I always knew that, that fried chicken was a calzone. By science. Yes. Fried chicken is a calzone.

Yes. Yeah, I mean, it's just a very odd way to look at it, but this is someone trying to make sense to be like, well, let's really talk about starch placement. I do want to go to KFC and be like, give me a bucket of calzone. Yeah, right. Chicken calzones. Chicken calzones.

Well, I guess by this by this rule though too, like if you did like a hero that's just a roll just split down the middle. That's a taco. That's a taco then. Yeah. That's not even a sandwich.

Yeah. What is a pita? Because a pita is kind of basically a- That's a bread bowl. Bread bowl on its side. Yeah. Yeah.

A typical lazy bread bowl. Yeah. So these are just very, you know. I like that they went with for number one, the most important one, the one that they first had to start out with, they went with toast instead of pizza. Yeah. I think just trying to keep it simple.

So pizza is just toast? Yeah. That's toast. Or toast is like a. It's a subcategory. It's a sub. It's part of the toast kingdom. Right.

Or an open-faced sandwich, you could call it. But toast is like a very specific yeah well yeah a lot of these descriptions i'm like does it have to be i guess the sushi is the only way to describe that or bread bowl or calzone yeah no that's my favorite part is when he's like and somebody's like what what's sushi then and he's like well it's just sushi right like he kind of gets stubborn right well that's a sushi well sushi. And a bread bowl? What if it's encased? Well, that's a calzone. Yeah, but what about this?

Fried chicken's a calzone. Get out of my office. So sushi is not sushi. Sushi rolls are sushi, but sushi that is just on a piece of rice on a piece would be toast. Yeah. So sushi is toast and sushi rolls are sushi. Now that you say that, he lost. I can't.

I cannot abide. Yeah, there's a lot of holes in his. I mean, but it's just funny because it's an interesting way to visualize it. But yeah, a lot of, I guess I don't like that we're going to reduce something that's so specific to be like, well, that's toast. Right. Yeah. I don't like that some, that people have to be like, well, what's a hot dog?

It's a fucking hot dog. Yeah. Yeah. Like, panini is a panini. Yes, fried chicken is fried chicken. Yeah, this is- That's a sandwich. Right.

Yes, that's a taco. Right. Yes. Weren't we just talking about how people need to be bored again? Yes. So now they're like, how do I figure out laws? Well, no, but this is what we do instead of boredom. See, there is like a bottomless bucket

of shit like this that we can just focus on and think about instead of like- This used to be for drunk people. Right. These conferences. This used to be for drunk people

at a bar being like, no, a hot dog's a choco. Right. Except that conversation ended up like, that used to just die right there at the bar and they wouldn't even remember they had it the next day.

Yes. But because somebody had a drunk conversation online that got preserved and then spread worldwide and now everybody's thinking about it. Yes. And that's what we're thinking about. Viral is the right word. Instead of, hey, I wonder what that neighbor's up to. Right, exactly. Why does he never come out the front door?

I think it's still there, though. He only goes out the back door. I think we're wired more than a lot of people because of where we live. I still think, like, I go back to visit my family in East Tennessee, and they still know what their people are doing. I also think it's very generational, for sure. But I think, I mean, also, I think in a small town, Facebook or whatever, that's how they're doing that.

Right. And they grew up around each other a lot of the time. So they know who's – like every time I go back, I don't have Facebook. I have a fan page. But I go back and do a show the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving in my hometown. And I always like when I'm promoting it, I get to catch up on Facebook. What all my friends are doing. And then it's all right there.

That's they live. I mean, it's but they're not doing anything bad. It's just like I know who dumped who and all that stuff. Yeah. And it's weird when I'm like, hey, yeah, you're with so and so. How'd you even know that? Right. But that's that's a conversation that would have taken place over beers before Facebook.

And now it takes place in a room by yourself, like in 20, when I'm in Des Moines in 10 minutes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it is a lonelier experience. It's funny because there were like lawsuits over the definition of a burrito.

Right. So there was a Panera bread that tried to argue in a court in Massachusetts that a burrito is a sandwich because a Qdoba, the Mexican restaurant, opened up at the mall food court and they had an agreement. They said you're violating the food court contract because he said we would be the only sandwich racket in town. Right. And then they're out here being like, this is, they're like, the burrito is a sandwich. Right. And the judge was like, nah, man, the burrito is not a sandwich.

And the USDA Food Standards and Labeling Policy book describes a burrito as a Mexican sandwich-like product. It's a Mexican calzone, isn't it? But that's what this man is saying. He's like, nah, this is, he's like, because this guy on Twitter, you can submit things to him and be like, well, what's a gusher? And he's like, that's a calzone. Right. You know what I mean? But no, it's not, because that's not starch.

This is what, again, I'm not... Miles, it's not! You also send me a question, you're like, what's a blowjob feel like? And he's like, pass. What's sexy? It's like sushi. I don't know what it is.

She makes a sushi out of her mouth. It's a burrito. It's actually a bread bowl. If she does it right, it's a burrito. It's actually a bread bowl. If she does it right, it's a burrito. But it's just, yeah, because he, like, it's funny because the response is when someone's like, well, what's a burrito? His answer's like, that would be a topic of debate. It's created with a single tortilla roll. By nature, it feels like more of a four-sided object.

I would be willing to consider it as a calzone as well and it's like going into business thinking like okay that's i mean that is some like mafia style business practices where you're like yo no one else can do what i'm doing in this area oh yeah right and they're like okay but we're gonna have burritos no no people can eat those corporations left to their own devices without regulation immediately become the mob it seems like well that's where they stole their business model. Yeah, exactly. Because all the money goes to the top. Right. And then.

Yeah, and you just shake people down. And you align yourself with other goons to protect you from the other ones. And you're so powerful, no one can do anything. All right, guys, let's talk about what's going on in Washington and with the Trump administration. I think just a good mood setting is for us to play the audio from a television ad that was just started airing today. Right. Brad Parscale, who, you know, like was his social media guy now running his campaign,

just dropped a fucking sick ad for Trump 2020. Let's just, I think we'll know a lot about what's happening right now if we just listen to this new TV ad. This is Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for President Trump. President Trump has achieved more during his time in office than any president in history. And that is why I need every Trump supporter to pick up the phone right now and deliver a personal thank you to your president. We have a booming economy, historical unemployment, including the lowest unemployment rate for minorities in history. Hallelujah! We're bringing jobs back to America through new trade deals, and the world is a safer place.

We need to let President Trump know that we appreciate what he's doing for America. I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a thank you to President Trump. Call or go online now. Call 800-684-3043 now and press 1 to tell President Trump thank you. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, President Trump. President Trump needs to hear from his supporters by calling 800-684-3043.

Guys, he's really, he's down in the dumps. Hey, have you visited Grandpa at the home? He's not doing well. Go visit him. Come visit me. It's like a depressed friend who people are like looking out for yeah well i mean what the fuck was i mean are we gonna learn that there's like some sort of scheme to this should we call it right now and just be like yo eat shit donald trump it's gonna ask for your social security. From the Daily Zeitgeist, eat my ass. Right. In a not good way.

In the not millennial sexy way. So why does he need cheering up? Why is, rather than like trying to get people to contribute or to, you know, give them some sort of information so that they can stay in touch with them for the 2020 campaign, they're just having

them call in and their call to action is just be like, thanks, man. Hey, they're just having them call in and their call to action is just be like, thanks, man. Hey, you're actually better than they say. Hey, you're all right, man. Yeah. Don't worry too much about it. Keep your hair up.

So why is he so down in the dumps? And we're going to get into, I think, most of these in a little more detail. But so he's not getting the border wall. He's not getting the money for the border wall, which we knew. There was that meeting with Nancy and Chuck where he was like, oh, I could get the votes if I wanted to. He's like, yeah, go. All right. All right, tough guy. Do it. Yeah, go do that. Go do that. And he then said, I'm happy to shut down the government to get funding for the border wall. And then I guess they went and looked at polls and realized that that was wildly unpopular.

So now he just backed down from that, which he does not like to do, back down from things. Well, if you look at him, his whole life is puff your chest up, bluff, bluff, bluff, bluff, take the L. Right. He never fucking gets what he wants. He's like, yeah, okay, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see if we can find the money somewhere else.

It's like what the arc was. And that's what they said today to try and sidestep that. Just, I mean, really, that wasn't a good look. So that was not good. And also not good is that it's happening on the same day that he had to dissolve the Trump Foundation because it's been exposed as a criminal organization. Yeah, criminal enterprise.

Because it's been exposed as a criminal organization. Enterprise, yeah. Yeah, criminal enterprise. It's fucking, yeah. Which, you know, this was the way that he claimed he was giving back to the community. And it turns out, no, it was just his favorite way to disguise crimes, and he can't do that anymore. And the people around him are doing so badly that they're starting to try and sell like knickknacks, basically. Well, yeah, a lot of people are either, look, there are things they can't get paid for,

or they want things they can't afford, or they're just upside down with legal fees. Right. Underwater. They're just drowning in legal fees. So yeah, a lot of people have come up with very clever things. Eric Trump uh you know was out there being like hey you guys should check out this really cool these christmas ornaments that were like 60 bucks or something and everyone was like what the fuck is this like what are you

trying to do and again i think it's probably trying to be like we need to sort of generate some money on the side here yeah help other things and like okay what's that then there was like this really cool like crowdfunding campaign to try and build the wall with people putting their own fucking money in how much they get i don't even know i mean like one person all they need is five bills yeah right i mean you know the coke brothers should where y'all at right with that even though that's something they actually don't want uh that was another thing that happened i think another someone else suggested well, why don't we just sell bonds to build it? Right.

Like what? Like, like as this, like when we used to buy like war bonds to help the war effort, like now you want us to just build a wall or like buy a, like build a wall, pay for a brick in the wall with your name on it. So when people seeking fucking asylum will know who to fucking go after when they actually get in here to be like literally surprise your name on a monument to racism yeah yes and then i think the saddest one comes from old roger stone right where he was selling what he calls the roger stone and it is, what he describes of is an exact replica

of the stone that David used to take down Goliath with Roger Stone's autograph on it. It's a stone with Roger written on it. He's selling a motherfucking rock with, he writes his name on it. Oh, wow. And he's selling them for eight bucks. So, he is having

some really... That's where we're at, guys. That's where we're at. Roger Stone is coming up with pun gifts, which this was so fucking sad, we considered buying it. Yeah. But I'm like, I also don't want to help this motherfucker in any way. And I realized I can make my own Roger Stone. Yeah.

I'll just write Roger on a fucking stone. Right. But will it be authentic? Will it be the exact stone that David threw to Slay Goliath? Right. But will it be authentic? Will it be the exact stone that David threw to slay Goliath? Right. Because as we know, Roger Stone did do a whole forensic analysis of the slaying of Goliath. Yes. In which he does have the sling that David used. That's what he's mainly known for.

He has Goliath's skull to see the traumatic brain injury, just massive head trauma that he got from the rock. To see the traumatic brain injury, just massive head trauma that he got from the rock. And then from there, also found the actual weapon used in the killing. And then made that into mold. Look, I can keep going. But yeah, let's just say that this is it. He's got the stone. It's a weird claim to make just all around. I'm just picturing him like sitting at a desk with just like a pile of stones around him being like next and having to sign each

one yeah yeah i mean it's rough times behind closed doors with uh roger stone when he's just like okay what can we do we'll just get a bunch of rocks and then stamp my first name on him right and then his phone goes off and this is his ringtone. Oh, no. Yeah, he's got, I mean, look, and that's why he had to go out and, like, take out ads, like, to apologize for spreading fucking bullshit on InfoWars. Yes. He's just in, man, it's all just, it's slowly, I know, like, every week we're, like, we always try and be, like, well, I don't know if this was really going on. Right. It looks like things are at least progressing in a much faster rate.

Things are speeding up and they're turning out as bad as they could possibly turn out. It seems like for everybody in the Trump orbit. A Christmas miracle. It's apparently not a miracle. It's just exactly. Eventuality. It's apparently not a miracle. It's just exactly what you suspected when you were like, is he like trying to get away with that? But that's a little too transparent. Is he just like a really bad criminal? And it's like, oh, yeah, just a really bad criminal. Turns out. Let's talk about Rudy Giuliani, the rudest lawyer in town. And not, he's not even, I don't even, I don't, can we call him a lawyer at this point?

He's a guy who is pretending to be a lawyer and is constantly exacerbating problems and not even making points that make any legal sense. Right. And it got really good this weekend. He talks about law stuff. So therein, he's like a WWE character who is a lawyer. Right, right, right, right. He talks about law stuff. So therein, he's like a WWE character who is a lawyer. Right, right, right. He talks about law stuff.

He's like, and here comes Legal Eagle. He's got a briefcase and an amicus brief. Yes. So, yeah. Wow. Over the weekend, he was doing his weekend dementia tour of news outlets. And he went on CNN and was basically talking about, you know, he kept going on and on about he was making those points about how Flynn

was set up, which that take didn't age well at all. Then he said another thing about how Trump and how he's really not Russian, has nothing to do with Russia ever, didn't do anything with Russia, I guess. And he said up until November 2016, they could have had a conversation about Trump Tower Moscow, meaning the Trump camp and the Russians. And it went nowhere. It was a real estate project. There was a letter of intent to go forward, but no one signed it. Right. A letter of intent's nothing.

Nobody signed it. Exactly. Didn't go anywhere. Smash cut to Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night, literally holding the receipt up to the camera and being like, Rudy, here is the letter of intent signed by Donald Trump. And at this point, we all know Donald Trump's signature because it looks like his messed up EKG reading.

Right. And it's just like, it's just there. It's all there. And this isn't anything new because, first of all, Michael Cohen and Donald Jr. testified in front of Congress and said the letter of intent was signed. They're just saying like, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah. So again, I don't know if they just don't even know how to lie anymore or whatever, but this isn't a new point. And we've always suspected that this was going on and knew this

was happening. It was just funny that it was just the evidence was just so clear this time. We're like, no, this never happened. Cut to i'm holding up the agreement being signed right from what i saw rudy giuliani then came on and said of course trump signed the letter what well it's a letter of intent of course he would sign it yeah truth is not truth well what he did was he actually went further goes he said it was fine because the letter was quote bullshit he said it didn't because it didn't go anywhere and he's like that was the end of it you know and this is a quote it means nothing but an expression of interest that means very little unless it goes to a contract and it never did but so this is all about the trump tower moscow which was being negotiated all through the 2016 presidential election up through i think november of 2016 yeah quite possibly all through the 2016 presidential election up through, I think.

November of 2016. Yeah. Quite possibly. Up through the election. And that's why people think it's weird because they were exchanging all sorts of favors. They were, you know, doing little things like helping him get elected president of the United States. And he was, you know, telling them not to worry about those sanctions and going behind the back of the sitting u.s president and people are like wait and they were in the midst of this like

business deal right and the whole campaign trail literally saying i don't know russia right i have nothing to do with russia i don't know russia right what's russia right hey russia if you're listening but then hey russia if you're listening i love it, hey, Russia, if you're listening, I love it. Right. But also, I don't know Russia. I don't know anything to do with Russia. And then he even knows a little bit of Russian. Because remember those video clips of him speaking Russian kind of well? No.

Oh, really? Yeah, I think he learned it just as part of a PR thing. But he said this thing pretty, I was impressed because I don't really give him any credit for any kind of skill. But he surprisingly had a little bit to say in Russian pretty clearly. But I think when you also look at the actual letter of intent, like sort of what this deal looked like, they were possibly going to make hundreds of millions of dollars if this thing happened. Like from licensing and all this other shit. So when you're looking at that, this is a deal that the trump organization has never made

ever in the the history of its organization this would have been the single largest deal the trump's ever like like put together the trump organization yeah and like some suspect you could have combined all the other deals in the past and it still wouldn't add up to what could have potentially been made had the trump moscow tower thing. Right. So when you look at that and you go, oh, okay, so there's your carrot. Right. And then like you're saying, it's like, okay, so money for Trump plus help to swindle the election equals no sanctions for Russia. Yeah. I think you can see what the dynamics here are. And even if there was no, the deal didn't go anywhere, there's clearly a letter of intent for it to go somewhere. Right. But again, you again you know what do we know we're just podcasters who wildly speculate isn't that

saying something also then that he would have bent over backwards and did all the stuff that he did and compromised himself and went on to national tv in the debates and talked about how great rush is and how we should you know take it easy on him And then he still didn't get the Trump Tower. Like Putin still was like, nah, thanks a lot, Trump. Yeah, maybe that could have been the masterwork of Putin where he's like, I will just draw you in just enough that I have you basically in my hand. Right.

And then blow the deal up and I'm hopefully can still get what I want. I mean, it's- Well, I think they didn't go through with it because he got elected like i think most of this was based on the idea that he wasn't going to get elected and then they once all of the shit started coming out they realized it would look bad but the sense that but they need him to get elected though for him for him to lift the sanctions like there's no point

that's a good point there's no reason for him for them to help him become the president because it's not like hillary was going to lift the sanctions right so that's where it gets interesting but again that's like the compromise part where you know it's like oh we have a lot of documentation of all this stuff whatever i mean who knows what else it is but yeah plus something not looking good it doesn't seem to be like really trump's mo you know yeah yeah yeah well speaking of his concern over things that don't look good uh apparently people who are in the know and kind of familiar with giuliani behind the scenes and trump's thinking said that the reason giuliani didn't go like from you know being out there and stomping for trump during the election to being part of his administration right away

was because Trump was worried about how much he's drinking. And there's all sorts of sort of behind-the-scenes things suggesting that Giuliani, like people said that they saw him at a bar before one of his appearances on one of the TV shows. Like CNN, I think. Yeah, on CNN. And he was like, I don't have a recollection of whether I went to the bar before or whether I went after.

It's, you know. I mean, he's always leaned back in those interviews. He's very comfortable. Yes. Plus, he also says, like, really crazy stuff, too. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Wild stuff that doesn't, it's almost like each sentence doesn't have any conception

of what the other sentences were. But I guess that getting a drunk person caught in an argument when you have them dead to rights, saying truth isn't truth seems like something that would come out of a person. Oh, of course. And truth isn't truth. And you can't win an argument with a drunk person because they just keep changing the grounds on which you're having the conversation. And that is essentially what it's been like listening to Rudy Giuliani.

And that's why drunken boxing is the deadliest form. Right. That's right. It's like, you know, there's how do I how do I nail this person down? You're too wobbly. Right. It's like trying to nail Jell-O to the how do I nail this person down? You're too wobbly. Right. It's like trying to nail jello to the wall.

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Big year for bears. Great year for bears. I invested in bears. It went great. I had most of my money in the Big Rock Candy Mountain and it worked out really well for me. I don't know what most of that means. Could someone give me an idea of bear market?

The bull market is like a generally optimistic market where everybody's like, you know, there's a lot of sales. Whereas a bear market is like people are hibernating. People are going into less sales. They're generally pessimistic. You can tell that like men created the finance industry because there's all these agro. Like, it's the bear market, not the bull market. Right. Chill out.

Their way of describing a quiet period of being nervous about things is like, we're bears. No, we're bears. I imagine it all in rhino pill font. Wait, what's rhino pill font? You know what rhino pills are? No. Oh, okay. So rhino pills, and I can't tell you why I know this,

but rhino pills, they sell them for truckers at rest stops, and it's to give you a rhino raging erection. If you check out the graphic design for rhinoPills. Where did you do your research here on this RhinoPill? At the truck stop or online? I may or may not be dating a former trucker who made me savvy to the

RhinoPill font and it's my favorite graphic design. Much slept on, I think. Oh yeah. It is a very strong font. Very bear market. As we head towards the end of Much slept on, I think. Oh, yeah. It is a very strong font. Yes. Very bear market. Yes. As we head towards the end of 2018, the USA Today, the number one news source in America. My favorite.

Hardest hitting. Hardest of hitting. The other daily zeitgeist. Yes. They are announcing that there are five products that are going away in 2019 that you probably love. Say Christmas cookies. Say Christmas cookies. Unfortunately, there are no Christmas cookies.

You can't cancel a genre of food. Catholic priest. Catholic priest. Nor an American classic. No, the Catholic Church is not canceling priests, unfortunately. Catholic Church is not canceling priests, unfortunately. Haagen-Dazs is canceling sweet cream coffee caramel as a flavor, vanilla tangerine shortbread, pomegranate dark chocolate bar, and then this one sounds like somebody is dying or like their brain is misfiring.

This is my favorite one. Yeah, chocolate dark chocolate almond bar. That sounds like a code. It's like a Da Vinci code shit. Chocolate dark chocolate, chocolate, dark chocolate, almond bar. That sounds like a code. It's like a Da Vinci code shit. Chocolate, dark chocolate, chocolate, almond, dark. Like a hypnosis code. Yeah. I have no attachment to Haagen-Dazs because I'm not wealthy.

Right, yes. Making a Haagen-Dazs, no. What kind of ice cream do you eat? Good riddance. I eat the McDonald's cone. Nice. That's not ice cream. That's okay.

You know what? That's ice cream-like processed food something. You know what? That is my favorite too. I love that ice cream. It's good ice cream. But it's not ice cream. It's also not calorically dense.

It's true. Yeah. Have you guys dipped French fries on your ice cream? I would eat your ice cream? I would eat an ice cream French fry Christmas cookie if someone invented one. Also, speaking of fast food, there are the Cal Wall calendars from Chick-fil-A. Is anybody familiar with these? Oh, I didn't know that was a product, but now I miss it. Yeah, I know.

Me too. So much. Eat more chicken. The Chevy Volt is going away. Is it big, small? I think that was a smallish hybrid or electronic vehicle. Oh, that's not good. Yeah.

Henry Bendel. Anybody familiar with that? He's a product or a man? He is a product, a brand that was like, I think I had heard it before. Super producer Ana Hosnia was talking about how on Gossip Girl, they talked about Bendel as like one of the only places they would shop because they were so rich. Oh, it's a store. Yeah.

It's a store. So it's probably French. That's what I wanted my kids to do. Henri Bendel. Yes. Bring your hobby boss to it. Why? How did I pronounce it? That's what I want in my tombstone. It's probably Henri Bondel. Yes. Bring your hobby boss to it. Why, how did I pronounce it? That's how it sounded in my head when I said it.

That's what I want in my tombstone. I wanted to say Jorge Cham. He was a man and a product. Yes. The brand. I want to only be famous as something that's going away in 2019. You've never heard me before. Now I'm going away.

Going away in 2019. The K never heard of it before. Now I'm going away. Going away in 2019. The connect feature on Apple Music. Did you guys, do you guys use Apple Music? What is that? That's like basically Apple's Spotify. No, but what's the connect feature? The connect feature is basically the social media. Like, you know how on Spotify you can see,

like you can follow an artist and they will like drop, like have, playlists and shit like that? Apple tried to do that and it didn't work for them. I still wish that Spotify would stop showing other people what I'm listening to because it's embarrassing and you can't turn it off for more than six hours. Is that true? Yeah. And you can't turn it off for more than six hours. Is that true?

Yeah. I have to every morning when I wake up, before I listen to Pippin, I have to turn off my public feed. Wow. Yeah. They just automatically revert to turning it back on. Why are you embarrassed? Yeah, after six hours. Is that the most embarrassing thing you listen to? No.

I've been in a Pippin hole, but I don't have good taste in music per se, and I would like to keep other, I need an interior life. You want to pretend that you have a good taste in music, but then actually listen to whatever you want? I'd like to listen to old Broadway songs, but not have that be my personality. You need like a Russian bot for your your spotify all right so those are the products that are going away so r.i.p r.i.p dark chocolate chocolate almond chocolate bar um and then the internet is going crazy over this rachel mcadams breast pump photograph i think it was like just an extra taken on a lark by the photographer during a photo shoot because she had to pump between photographs because she had a baby six months ago.

And yeah, it's pretty dope picture. She looks like a boss and she has the breast pumps going. She's getting good milk, both sides. Well, she's Rachel McAdams. They can't show an empty bottle. Right. So you're saying that's fake milk. I'm Rachel McAdams, breastfeeding truther.

Yes. But somebody was pointing out that it's somewhat of a, like if you want to do a sort of deep political reading of the image. Hit it. sort of lean in model where, you know, America doesn't give working women good maternity benefits and women are just expected to respond to that by working harder and under worse conditions. And it's like, yeah, you can pump milk while doing your job. You're like a boss. And it's just, you know, it's, it kind of sucks that America, that that's sort of the going way we've decided to deal with i would also uh are you just from for my time at plabois uh magazine

oh plabois you know plabois hugh hefner i used to buy that magazine at henry bondel that there's like been this rise of breastfeeding pictures which is like incredible in one sense that it's like there's at least the stigma is lessening for breastfeeding in public and like having spaces where you can do that uh but also i think that especially on instagram that's the only way you can have your nip out if you're a woman is they like revise their uh policies this year so that you can have a female nipple in a picture but only if it's in a maternal context which is alt-right right they're like all right we got to adapt with the times how can we get an agenda an anti-abortion agenda into our feelings on the female nipple.

Yeah. So I think that that has had to do with the rising trend as well. I don't know. I mean, in one way, I obviously completely support breastfeeding and all photo shoots therein. And the other way, it does feel like, okay, how do we desexualize a female nipple for the internet? Yeah. And I'm totally mystified by the stigma about breastfeeding.

Like, what's the issue? There's nothing gross about it. There's boobs. There's milk. Like, both of those things independently are awesome. I'm pro-boob. I'm pro-milk. I've never seen somebody breastfeeding and gone, oh, gross.

And I just don't get what's gross about it. Oh, I mean, I've seen other people react to breastfeeding that way when someone's trying to. I have reacted that way when it was that video. It was like a news story about a mom who's breastfeeding her like seven-year-old child. That's a different story. That weirded me out i was like oh it's like the last emperor right yeah yeah very breastfeeding your seven-year-old maybe do it in private yeah but she couldn't have been more proud uh sure but yeah this is uh

you know you have to deal with pump rooms which are not always like they don't like give you the the greatest room in the office usually. It's just like a converted janitor's closet. They're like, yeah, go pump your breasts in there, you sick freak. I'm not going to say where in LA there's a pumping room that doubles as a podcast studio, but it does exist. Really? Yeah. I think it's just due to lack of space, but they're like, you can breastfeed here, but sometimes people are airing their takes out here.

Oh, no. It's wild. Wow. Yeah. Okay, you can tell me off. I will tell you off. Oh, it's here? Oh, shit.

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